LATE CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue 13047, 9 January 1917, Page 3

LATE CABLES.

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(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 9, att 2.15 p.m. oLondon, January 9. Sir E'. L. Borden has written to Mr Massey accepting- the Government's offer to panel with New Zealand timbers a. 'portion of the new Parliament House at Ottawa. Sir R. L. Borden suggests that tho Prime Minister's room he so treated. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward visited the New Zealand officers' convalescent home at Brighton, and were delighted by the excellent accommodation and treatment. Calcutta, January 9. Sentences have been passed on 17 prisoners in the second Lahore conspiracy case. Six were sentenced to i death, five to imprisonment for life, one to two years', and five were discharged. The judgment stated that the evidence proved the complicity of German consular agents from America. "We are fullv satisfied," it says, "that the UnitecTStates is the chief centre of the ■Ghuda, and that the movement to overthrow the British Empire in India was planned there. The enemy is planning to commence war, murder, and rapine at Manila, another centre of revolutionary activity." (The Times Service.) London, January'B. The Russian collier Seeniel and the Norwegian vessel Laupar have been submarined.

(United Service.) Flushing, January 8. Twenty-two British soldiers have' ai"rived from Ruhleben, broken in health. Women from. Berlin confirm the lack of essential foodstuffs. They say everyone is longing for peace, _ but they understand) they must continue to" fight. They are hopeful that the conquest of Bessarabia, and the entry of Odessa, will ensure victory.